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Its story

In Camelopardalis shines a luminous orange giant whose light has been on its way for more than two thousand years. When it set out, the Roman Empire was spreading under Augustus and aqueducts were being raised in Hispania that still stand today. It is a colossal K-type star, far larger and brighter than the Sun, capable of lighting our sky from a distance few visible stars surpass. Its glow is a slow postcard from antiquity, received now in a world that has long forgotten the Latin once spoken beneath it.